Apple may be winning many of its patent lawsuits around the world, but in the UK it’s a different story. Last week Apple was forced to put a notice/apology on its website stating that Samsung didn’t actually infringe Apple device designs because they are “not as cool.”

The notice that appeared was anything but apologetic. In fact, the six paragraphs just summarized the judgement and then went on to point out other courts had found Samsung was engaging in unfair competition and copied the iPad design. In other words, Apple doesn’t agree with the UK courts and wanted to make that very clear.

Not unexpectedly, Apple is in trouble for posting the notice. UK judges found it to be in breach of the original order and have demanded it be removed and replaced alongside an acknolwedgement that the original notice was inaccurate. Apple’s lawyer Michael Beloff has argued that the notice fulfilled the order and dispelled “commercial uncertainty.” However, Apple seems to have already complied by taking the original notice down so we should expect a replacement soon.

To add to the drama, Apple has requested 14 days to get the revised notice ready and posted on Apple.com. Judge Robin Jacob has rejected that request and asked Apple submit an affidavit explaining why it would take so long as it’s unbelievable. It’s just a notice on a web page after all, and something they have already done a few days ago.

If Apple had simply followed the original order and not turned it into a statement of how much they disagree with the ruling then we’d all have forgotten about it by now. As it stands, this is set to run on and on, and Apple is constantly reminding everyone Samsung didn’t infringe its design patents in the UK.

Reader Comments

Anony

Yet again Apple have been caught out by “smoking crack”.

societyofosiris

“Apple may be winning many of its patent lawsuits around the world” FALSE – The United States does not constitute ‘the world’ and any fact checking will show that the U.S. is the only real victory with German courts led astray by photoshopped evidence. The German courts are now looking in to this matter and have stayed some of the preliminary bans placed on Samsung.

goten11756

Sorry Apple, you are garbage without Jobs. You resort to pathetic lawsuits and public displays of arrogance, while desperately trying to catch up to the competition in terms of innovation, software, and technology. Your shares have fallen immensely over the past few weeks, and consumer satisfaction is at an all-time low.

Suck it up, present a formal apology to Samsung, and move on. I don’t see Samsung crying over the loss of the $1 billion jury lawsuit, EVEN though the trial was one-sided with a judge that has a remarkable history of favoring Apple in many cases, and a jury all living within 30 miles of Apple headquarters. If a 5-year old child knows how to apologize and move on, why can’t you…unless of course you guys are too busy looking through big Benjamins’?

Guest

This is pathetic. How can Apple not realize how petty they look in this situation. Even many Apple fans are admitting that this is downright embarrassing, whether they agree with the ruling or not.

Tall Timbers

Without Jobs, I expect Apple to die a slow death. Jobs was a true genius when it came to product, design, and marketing strategy. Apple won’t work so well without him. It’ll start slowly, but they’ll someday be in the position that Nokia is in today…

vikings football

from going thermonuclear against android (even it kills me –> well, it did steve…it killed you)….making prior art theirs, patenting them, then suing…to being deceiving…to selling for highest profit margin….to being the biggest deekhead company in the world = GREEDY MUTHA

Untouchable

D’ah! Why didn’t you just do what you were told the first time around – APPLE!